luv2safari
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Our deer and bird seasons open on the same day every year, and where I'll be hunting has good muleys, chucker ptg., and sagehen. This is why I love drillings!
Anyone else take a similar approach? I enjoy the idea of a nice mixed bag... 
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AussieMike
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I always take my drilling when I'm not going hunting - for example, when working in a country town for a week or two, or visiting friends. Sometimes opportunities come up and it's nice to know that if an elephant or lion escapes from a circus I'll be right with the 9.3x74R barrel.
mike
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NE450No2
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Since I got to hunt Africa,and black bear in Canada and Idaho, my wife gets to shoot the buck deer on our lease this year. I have convinced [tricked    ]her that her 308 bolt rifle is the best choice.... That means I can use her 12x12x30-06 drilling. I will start every morning on the duck pond, then sneak around looking for a coyote or a wild pig as I walk the river looking for more ducks. 
I think a drilling is one great hunting gun.
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luv2safari
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No2...you've just been promoted to No1!
Have you had any extraction problems with the rimless '06? All my present and former drillings have been in rimmed calibers; I just got a 12/12/30-06 Sauer 3000 circa 1968 or so. I've only shot it out my back porch a bit, and with no problems. It is scoped with a Nickel Supra 6x in claws, and I'm thinking I'll use it this fall.
Good luck convincing your wife that the 308 is far better suited for her!  I have always been of the opinion that three are twice as good as two...even goes for gun barrels, not just women in the rack... 
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luv2safari
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AussieMike,
I need you over here to help rid us of these marauding Northern Nevada Cactus Rhinos...they have many horns growing longer and longer, right out of their nose...just like yours.
Are there any hunters there on the upside down part of the world who use drillings?
Regards,
luv2
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Taos
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I think a drilling would be just the weapon for that area.I used one for a while in Southern Idaho. Where at in Nevada? used to chase those Chukars there a bit too!
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luv2safari
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Taos,
From about Tonopah, North. I have my deer tag in area 17, the exact center of the State this year. There is a high plateau I climb up onto that has a good deer population, as well as sagehen at a spring near the top and chucker along the rim. I can drive about half way up, then hoof it the rest of the way. There is a road along the East foot of the plateau, so I confine my hunting to the middle-Eastward. The nearest road to drag a deer to on the West side is about 7 miles away, and some of that is up hill through the sage and mahogany.
I'll have horses next season and will venture West farther, if any of us gets a tag. I have taken many Blue Grouse while deer hunting...great eating! I get them mostly in Elko and White Pine Cos. I used to hunt the Rubies allot and would at times come off the hill with blues, ruffed grouse, sagehen, chucker and a deer. The California blight has moved in along the base of the Rubies, and these citified Bozos have blocked much of our access. They wonder why we spit on them at every opportunity! When we find the Kalifornikators with their tits in the ringer out somewhere in the desert, we tend to just push harder on the gas and dust them as we pass.
Nevada has changed so much in the last ten years that I'm ducking out to move permanently to a place that has ice and snow where they won't go, at least as many of them.
Do I sound bitter? You bet your ass I'm bitter!  We were hoping that AIDS would be the Great Basin's salvation...it wasn't... 
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NE450No2
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I have not had a single problem with extraction of the 30-06 in her drilling. Nor have I had any problems with extraction in my 308 Blaser K-95.
I would like to have a 9,3x74R rifle bbl in my drilling, but it is because I like the calibre. I would not be afraid in the least to get a drilling in a rimless cartridge.
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luv2safari
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No2,
I've noticed that the chambers are a bit loose in my '06 drilling. I shot another Sauer 3000 today in the same calibers, and its chamber was the same. I was wondering whether you noticed anything similar?
The drillings both shot good groups when allowed to cool between shots.
Any luck getting those three barrels away from the "Boss"?
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NE450No2
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When I get a chance I will measure some of the brass from the drilling. I have reloaded some of the brass 2 times with out problems. I use starting loads from the manual, as I do not want to wear the gun out unnecessarily.
I have pulled a major coup. Since she will be hunting the BIG BUCK this year she will use a 308 Bolt Rifle and I will concentrate on ducks. So every morning I will be on the Duck Pond with the Drilling . Then I will sneak around looking for a coyote and prowling the river for a few more ducks. I will also stalk up and shoot a Turkey or two. They are a lot of fun to hunt this way.
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luv2safari
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You sly Devil...
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AussieMike
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Drillings are quite expensive in Oz but a few people use them for pigs - they use SSG (OO buck) and a slug in the shotgun barrels and the rifle barrel.
Most of our hunting is not limited by seasons (not even for most deer species, apart from waterfowl) so they make sense for hunting where rabbit and fox are the main quarry but you may come across a pig or goat.
If you are looking for a place to hunt on private property and are working in a country town, a drilling makes a good conversation piece and seems so refined and innocuous (when compared to a black plastic stocked, scoped big bore bolt action) that people are more likely to let you onto their property.
Many of the drillings here were brought out by post war migrants. The stories they tell about how they kept them from being confiscated by the Nazi's are fascinating. Unfortunately, most are 16ga and an unusual European calibre which puts people off purchasing them as ammo can be very difficult. Australia is a .223/.308/12ga sort of country, despite the impression you may get from this site.
mike
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Dark_Helmet
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we've got one week of birds before deer open, but during the days during deer season I load a slug in the bottom barrel of my SKB 20ga and #6 on the top. if it flies, it dies, if its brown, its down.
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